Quran glossary · draft

زَلْزَلَ وزَلْزَلَة وزِلْزَال

severe destabilization

Repeated shaking that severely disrupts a subject's settled state.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 6

Roots: زلزل

Lemmas: زلزل · زلزال · زلزلة

Forms: زُلْزِلُ · زَلْزَلَةَ · زِلْزَالًا · زُلْزِلَتِ · زِلْزَالَ

Occurrence examples (6 of 6)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 6.

2:214

أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَن تَدْخُلُوا۟ ٱلْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُم مَّثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ خَلَوْا۟ مِن قَبْلِكُم مَّسَّتْهُمُ ٱلْبَأْسَآءُ وَٱلضَّرَّآءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ ٱلرَّسُولُ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مَعَهُۥ مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ ٱللَّهِ أَلَآ إِنَّ نَصْرَ ٱللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ

22:1

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّ زَلْزَلَةَ ٱلسَّاعَةِ شَىْءٌ عَظِيمٌ

33:11

هُنَالِكَ ٱبْتُلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا۟ زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا

33:11

هُنَالِكَ ٱبْتُلِىَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُوا۟ زِلْزَالًا شَدِيدًا

99:1

إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا

99:1

إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا

Why this meaning was chosen

All six occurrences were compared. The passive verb affects earlier believers, the believers at the confederate siege, and the earth, while زَلْزَلَة and زِلْزَال nominalize the same destabilizing event. Physical earth motion and severe human ordeal preserve repeated disruption of stability as one core. No candidate, collision, aligned reading divergence, or unresolved semantic question remains.